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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1960
Page
5
New York markets show higher stocks with a recovery tone while bands and government indicators drift lower. Cotton and wheat rise on strong demand, corn and oats fall on light selling, soybeans slide with profit pressure. Hog prices steady to 25 cents higher, around 14 dollars per hundredweight.
Kansas City AP market notes show cattle and calves scarce on offer while hogs range mixed with steadier barrows and weaker sows. Wheat and corn prices move. soybeans and byproducts listed. Eggs and poultry prices vary, with wholesale eggs and consumer eggs detailed alongside other farm products and fowl pricing.
A man named Thomas described being beaten unconscious after entering a location where he and at least one other man were waiting inside. No further details on suspects or motive were provided.
Readable fragment lists animal weights and butter specifications. Mentions young white geese of about 12 units and weights over 5 pounds. Includes butter grades and fat content ranges with unit weights and measurements.
Wheat at 1.80 a bushel for yellow shell corn 0.97 yellow ear corn 0.94 white shell corn 0.94 white ear corn 0.97 barley 0.76 oats 0.75 milo 1.36 soybeans 1.87 Poultry prices Heavy hens 0.09 light hens 0.05 old roosters 0.05 Butter Premium 0.50 No 1 0.47 Eggs Grade A large 0.23 current receipts 0.19
The New York market stayed firmer despite late profit taking and quiet trading with about 2.8 million shares volume. Fractions to a point gains appeared in many key stocks while the day’s top performers included Universal Match up about 3 and Texas Instruments, General Tire and Bell & Howell advancing. Most motor stocks fell and steelmakers led declines among industry groups.
Stocks showed small advances with rails leading as Santa Fe and Chesapeake & Ohio rose about a point each. Lorillard Goodrich Philco United Aircraft and American Telephone gained fractionally while Am Cat, Merck Kennecott Ford Chrysler and American Motors eased. U.S. government bonds edged lower.
Detroit AP report says Earl A. Thomas 45 was found in good condition after a teen girl admitted carving eight inches of initials R W on his back. Several suspects including Joan Wierda 17 and others were held for investigation after Thomas said he met the pair at a restaurant and was attacked at the girl’s apartment.
Three Central Junior High School girls served as pages in the state House of Representatives Thursday and today and will report observations of legislative procedures when they return to class Monday. Linda Winters, Patty McGrew, and Mary Wortham met Gov. George Docking and spoke with lawmakers about issues on the day’s agenda.
In Havana the Cuban government assigns direction and control of all institutions linked to economic policy to the Labor Ministry. The sweeping powers consolidate control over work conditions across the economy, signaling a major centralization of economic authority.
The decree approved in a postmidnight session of Prime Minister Fidel Castro and his Cabinet reorganizes Labor Ministry headed by Mar Augusto Jinez Sanchez. It authorizes regulation of salaries hours days off and other working conditions for all labor sectors and empowers intervention in labor conflicts and enterprises as needed.
Flames swept an unlicensed three story rooming house in St Louis early today killing a mother and her daughter and injuring others as smoke and flames spread through the structure authorities said the two victims were identified as residents of the house and the blaze prompted an intensive fire department response
Esther Allen 29 died after leaping from a third floor window and Patricia Ann 9 was found dead in a charred apartment. James Robinson 26 rescued another child, while Isiah Pearson 39 and Peggy Ann Clark 19 remained hospitalized with serious injuries. Firefighter James McMahon 36 was injured. five others escaped. Tenants all described as Negro.
The jagged boundary between East and West Germany cuts through numerous towns and even a house or two. Near Helmstedt the frontier bisects a salt mine, illustrating the deep division of the country during the Cold War era.
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